Introduction: the end of Soviet isolationism after 1953; 1. A modern image for the USSR: Soviet self-representation towards Latin Americans; 2. Moscow learns the mambo: Latin America and internationalism in Soviet popular culture; 3. Paradise lost and found: Latin American intellectuals in and on the Soviet Union; 4. From Russia with a diploma: Latin American students in the Soviet Union; 5. Desk revolutionaries: Soviet Latin Americanists and internationalism in the late Soviet Union; Conclusion: Soviet internationalism after Stalin and its domestic and foreign audiences.
The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Tobias Rupprecht is Lecturer in Latin American and Caribbean History at the University of Exeter.
'Tobias Rupprecht has high aspirations in his pathbreaking study of
Soviet-Latin American encounters: to put Russia in global history,
to put Latin America in Soviet history, and to put culture into the
study of international relations. Using sources from Brasilia
to Bogata to Moscow, he succeeds admirably in Soviet
Internationalism after Stalin.' David C. Engerman, Brandeis
University, Massachusetts
'Tobias Rupprecht has written a compelling account of Soviet
cultural relations with Latin America during the Cold War. It
ranges across a wide variety of cultural sources, from official
propaganda to travelogues and films. … this is an interesting and
useful study of a topic that has received too little attention in
the recent past, and Rupprecht should be commended for having
approached it with precision and flair.' Alessandro Iandolo,
Journal of Contemporary History
'Overall, this outstanding book deserves a wide audience among
Soviet historians and cultural historians of the Cold War. It rests
on deep and wide-ranging primary source research (Russian archives,
Russian and Spanish-language publications, and a handful of
interviews), as well as a thorough command of recent scholarship in
English, German, Russian, and Spanish, yet it is well written and
engaging.' Julie Hessler, Slavic Review
'… an in-depth study on Soviet instruments, hopes, expertise,
understanding and results of cultural and academic policy with
regard to Latin America … predestined to serve as a highly valuable
work of reference on Soviet-Latin American cultural relations, the
more so as Soviet-Latin American relations in general remain on the
current research agenda.' Ragna Boden, Jahrbücher für Geschichte
Osteuropas
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